2005 effect of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries a pooled analysis lancet 2005 355 pp 451 455
... in drafting the manuscript GT made a substantial contribution to conception and design, interpreted the data and helped in drafting the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... massively aspirated and died dueto refractory pulmonary failure soon after ICU admission According to the experience of Mongolian physicians, acetic acid ingestion is a frequent intoxication requiring ... acetic acid intoxication During binge drinking, a 42-year-old Asian man, a chronic alcoholic, involuntarily ingested ~100 ml of 80% acetic acid After hospital admission, he developed intravascular...
... stimulation Effectof PI3-kinase and ARF inhibitors on O2 À and PLD activation Selective pharmacological inhibitors were used to assess the role of PI3-kinase and ARF proteins on the activation of ... PI3-kinase in the early phase and by PLD ina later phase Brefeldin A, an inhibitor of ARF GTPases and therefore ARF activation, likewise caused significant inhibition of both fMLP-stimulated PLD activity ... PLD activation appear to have a differential effecton these responses, with PtdOH able to support degranulation and DAG being more important for respiratory burst activity PLD activation and O2...
... that Qigong has a similar effectto antidepressants (Yu, 1999) This may be because Qigong practice has an emphasis on breathing relaxation When the body and mind are calm, a person’s physical and ... sitting balance, anda minimum shoulder forward abduction range of 50 degree in one hand as assessed by the case occupational therapist The participants were randomly allocated into the intervention ... further categorized into four domains, including physical health domain, psychological domain, social relationship domain and environment domain The Cronbach alpha values Int J Geriatr Psychiatry...
... doubling and fast optical gating [11] and behaves as an X-ray detector [12] Electronic and optoelectronic properties of GaSe, GaS, and InSe materials indicate the possibilities of realizing phototrigger ... lone-pair states and hence broaden the valence band This will give rise to additional absorption over a wider range of energy leading to band tailing and hence shrinking of the band gap The optical ... pre-exponential factor are calculated, and these values are given in Table On the basis of the calculated values of activation energy and pre-exponential factor, it is suggested that the conduction...
... of all the mixtures was that of water to enable the volumes to be calculated Aliquots of each rinse were taken for morphine analysis Cotton ball filter A cotton ball (Home Brand Cotton Balls, Australia) ... authors are grateful to Inn Chua for assistance in preparing the photomicrographs, andto Tania Hunt from the Tasmanian Council on AIDS, Hepatitis and Related Diseases for assisting with organisation ... viral infections are mostly dueto blood contamination from shared equipment and are avoided by not sharing In one Canadian hospital, the two most common reasons for admission of injecting drug...
... facing the wall of the maze at a random location A typical training consists of day of visual cue (VC) training followed by days of spatial cue (SC) training In the VC training (4 trials), a ... seen in centrally administered LPS 16 Figure 1.1 Schematic diagram of activation of TLR4 and its signalling cascade in inducing the transcription of inflammatory cytokines (Adapted from Takeda and ... microglia in the CNS and inducing a host of inflammatory response that are similar to most neurodegenerative diseasesIn addition, systemic induction of inflammation was chosen over a centrally induced...
... exist in nature Carotenoids are found in plants and not appear in animals and animal origin foods β-carotene is known to be a precursor of vitamin A (Paiva and Russell, 1999) In addition, βcarotene ... determining the source and concentration of nitrogen favorable for biomass and β -carotene accumulation in Dunaliella sp 2 MATERIALS AND METHODS 2.1 Microalgal strain and culture medium Dunaliella ... the daily diet is hard to avoid According to the World Health Organization a long time vitamin A deficiency can lead to disorders such as xeroma and ophthalmia that are the common cause of blindness...
... Summary and conclusions (a) Prechlorination of river water during UF in combination with adsorption was conducted and evaluated with respect to NOM removal and membrane permeability IOP had a larger ... 845 2A, USA) and the TOC concentration was measured using a TOC analyzer (Sievers 8200, USA) In particular, the UV absorbance and the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration of raw water ... (DR2500, USA) and reagent pillows When the prechlorination of raw water was applied in the experiments, the initial UV absorbance was defined as the UV absorbance of raw water after chlorination and...
... P, Johnson GL, Widmann C Role of the amino-terminal domains of MEKKs in the activation of NF kappa B and MAPK pathways andin the regulation of cell proliferation and apoptosis Cell Signal 2002, ... protein kinase; NF-κB, nuclear factor kappa B; IκB, inhibitory kappa B; CDK, cyclin dependent protein kinase radical scavenging These data demonstrate that DHT appears to have powerful cytoprotective ... suspension was loaded into a 96-well plate and examined using a luminometer (Victor3; PerkinElmer, Finland) anda fluorescent plate reader with excitation and emission wavelengths of 485 nm and 535...
... agreements and supervision concerning safety precautions are critical to the maintenance of safety standards Informed Consent Many aspects of consent in examination surveys are similar to standards ... Biological and Clinical Data Collection in Population Surveys inLessDevelopedCountries Summary ofa meeting held by MEASURE Evaluation National Academy of Sciences: January 24–25, 2000; Washington ... survey find- http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/1/1/16 ings to respondents may also include recommendations of appropriate actions to be taken based on the findings Long-term storage of...
... WHO[1] Malaria is a major killer among infectious diseases, and Burma accounted for nearly half of all malaria deaths in the SEARO region (which includes India) despite having only a fraction of the ... narco-economics of production and supply At Responding toInfectiousDiseasesin the Border Regions of South and Southeast Asia: 25 January 2007: Bangkok Thailand Maung C: Mae Tao Clinic: a ... this critical new class of agents[3] In the context of HIV/AIDS, the Burma border zones of Yunnan in China, and Manipur and Nagaland in the Indian Northeast were all reported to be those countries...
... economies in Asia and recently China, may pursue a comparative-advantage-following (CAF) strategy In CAF, the government attempts to induce a firm’s entry ina industry according to the economy’s ... the relative abundance of capital and labor in an economy and argued: When Japan initiated its automobile-production in the mid-1960s, its per capita income was more than 40 percent of that in the ... creating a tradeoff between investment in capital and capital-intensity In Zuleta and Young (2007), however, both the investment in capital deepening, and the investment to adopt a more capital intensive...
... effects of abnormal activation and myocardial disease on left ventricular ejection and filling times Heart 2000;84:272-6 Hayashida W, Kumada T, Nohara R, Tanio H, Kambayashi M, Ishikawa N, Nakamura ... ventricular dilatation anda reduced systemic vasodilator capacity may produce sub-optimal afterload conditions resulting ina prolongation of left ventricular ejection and total LV systole (10,11) ... an increased mechanical dyssynchrony during pacing–induced tachycardia in patients with normal QRS duration (21) A remarkable increase in intra-LV dyssynchrony was also demonstrated during pharmacological...
... value of Cmax was immediately decreased and kupt was gradually increased dueto the increase of CFe Mishima and Nakajima (200 3a) reported that the insoluble and accumulated coagulant in the activated ... Run1-1 to Run1-4 are shown in Fig In the anaerobic phase, PO4-P concentration increased toa certain value and remained constant in each run In Run1-1, PO4-P concentration in the anaerobic phase was ... reactor was L Two liters of synthetic wastewater mainly containing acetate and glucose (components are listed in Table 1) was flowed into each reactor during the influent phase The concentrations...
... - including addressing issues related to adherence and regular monitoring and support Training of national leaders and program managers on integration issues Financial management • Assist countries ... AM, Agrawal PK, Ahmed, S, Darmstandt GL, Kumar V, Kiran U, Panwar D, Ahuja RC, Srivastava, VK, Black, RE, Santosham, M Impact of an integrated nutrition and health programme on neonatal mortality ... delivery to support breastfeedingand identify and manage infection ● Complete and timely immunization ● Malaria prevention and treatment including access to malaria control programs and ITNs ● Case...
... two approaches to evaluate the effectof TARP on bank risk-taking in more detail Our first approach uses a basic event-study analysisto examine the change in the average risk of loan originations ... illustrates that the average risk rating of loan originations by large TARP and non-TARP banks increased after the TARP capital infusion period The non-TARP banks had a consistently lower average ... over total loans, Gonzalez (2005) uses a measure based on non-performing loans to total bank loans and Jimenez, Lopez, and Saurina (2007) use a measure based on commercial nonperforming loans...
... international tax issues, and is the author of International Tax as International Law: U.S Tax Law and the International Tax Regime (2007) and U.S International Taxation: Cases and Materials (with ... public and private He is the author ofa major treatise on International Economic Law, as well as casebooks and textbooks on conflict of laws and aviation law anda series of teaching books on international ... the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain), as well as in many universities in Latin America He is a leading author on international business in Latin America His latest book is Can Latin American...
... reverse, 5¢-TTTACACGTTTCCAAGAAAGTGATG TA-3¢; BNIP3 forward, 5¢-TTTGCTGGCCATCGGATT3¢; BNIP3 reverse, 5¢-ACCAAGTCAGACTCCAGTTCTT CA-3¢; aldolase forward, 5¢-GAATTGGATGAAAGATA AAGCCCTTA-3¢; aldolase reverse, ... to this transcription factor, as activator protein-1 (AP-1) and c-myc activities are also affected Moreover, a dual effectof this molecule was demonstrated, as it appeared to enhance HIF-1 activity ... PMA alone (E) The table summarizes the inhibition percentage of HIF-1, c-myc and AP-1 DNA binding activity (TransAM) when echinomycin was added to the nuclear extracts before the assay, and of...
... main-chain carbonyls of Lys181 and Asn182 directly, and the main-chain carbonyl of Glu184 by way ofa water molecule However, in lactate oxidase, the exchange of the E160G mutation appears to ... (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) Fig Variation of the atomic temperature factors averaged for the main-chain atoms of spinach glycolate oxidase [19] The data were obtained from the Protein Data Bank (entry ... extension of the side-chain generated by the Val fi Ile mutation forms van der Waals contacts with the side-chain atoms of Thr128 or the main-chain atoms of Gly126 and Ala127 As residues 126–128 are...